Providing a procedure name as argument - is it possible?

I am trying to write a wrapper procedure that would trap certain runtime exceptions and re-run procedures, and was wondering if that is possible in PL/SQL.
I would like to invoke it with a line like this:
MyUtilityPackage.run_proc(a_package.a_procedure, retries => 3, wait_minutes => 2, etc.).
This would be enormously useful to me since I can write a generic procedure to handle things like deadlocks that require intervention, rather than going into many, many programs and adding them in each.
Thanks,
Regards,
Srini

Thanks, but that would not help. I need to add other conditions - for certain conditions, I need to react to certain errors in certain ways.
I noticed that I can use "execute immediate" to do this, but am wondering if it has a steep system overhead. Also, if I use this method, I give the name of the package and procedure as a varchar2, but I would like to know if there is a data type, sort of like a function pointer in C that allows me to define a variable as a function.
Regards,
Srini

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